The city of East Orange, New Jersey, is implementing a new community watch type program that allows community residents on two troubled streets to email the police department to point their video cameras at suspicious activity in progress. I’m not sure whether to be creeped out by the Big Brother implications or impressed by the diffusion of power to the community.

Oil Standard is a Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox that converts dollars to barrels of oil at current prices wherever they appear on websites. In case you don’t feel guilty enough for being a resource-hogging first world citizen, I suppose.

War (uh) what is it good for? Apparently gadget developers, whose latest addition to the infantryman’s bandolier is a rifle-launched camera dart.

If you weren’t hip enough to be at South By Southwest, you can .mp3s of some of the most interesting programming.

According to Cambridge University biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, the first person to live to 1,000 years of age has already been born. True or not, this idea is frightening to me mainly because the average person today starts to get pretty frail right around sixty, so unless we manage to improve the quality of life for the elderly along with their lifespan, we youngsters are doomed to some 900 years of infeebled misery. While I’m sure that at some point the necessity for some kind of physical rejuvenation process would breed the requisite ingenuity to devise one, I’m still not convinced that several decades, if not centuries, of torture would be worth it.